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+This directory contains the following files:
+
+Metafont files for the Tengwar font. The normal design size is
+of course(?) 10 points, although for ornamental purposes the
+best size seems to be about 14 points. Thus,
+
+ \mode:=localmode; mag:=magstep2; input tengwar
+
+is the best command line to use.
+
+ tengwar.mf The main file.
+ tiw.mf "input" file to include all the other pieces.
+
+ telcor.mf Stem definitions for the table letters.
+ luvar.mf Bow definitions for the table letters.
+ bars.mf Horizontal bars that are part of table letters.
+
+ tincotema.mf These four files are the four columns of the
+ parmatema.mf regular table letters (1--24).
+ calmatema.mf
+ quessetema.mf
+
+ additionals.mf Characters 25--36 from the bottom of the table.
+ fullvowels.mf The unique vowel characters from the Mode
+ of Beleriand.
+
+ accents.mf Diacritical vowels, dots below, bars, etc.
+ carriers.mf Things to put accents on.
+
+ punctuation.mf Punctuation marks.
+ numerals.mf JRRT's numerals as reported by Christopher
+ Tolkien (British Tolkien Society 1981).
+
+ ligtable.mf Some convenient ligatures.
+
+Two samples using plain TeX accenting macros to generate pretty stuff:
+
+ quenya.tex Namarie
+ sindarin.tex A Elbereth Gilthoniel
+
+Miscellaneous other stuff:
+
+ READ-ME This file.
+ Copyright My legal mark, in the spirit of TeX and GNU. Note
+ that this font is *not* public domain; I retain the
+ copyright. However, distribution is free as long
+ as you keep it free.
+ tengwarweird.mf An alternative to tengwar.mf, experimenting
+ with other pen parameters.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The letter values are, necessarily, somewhat idiosyncratic. By and large,
+they are optimized for an English (Westron) mode using the "full" vowels
+from the Mode of Beleriand. Obviously, using diacritical vowels will
+require an input file that looks like line noise (see quenya.tex), or
+will require sufficiently ingenious TeX macros and "active" characters
+to perform the accenting where needed. This is left as an exercise
+for the reader. In any case, it is recommended that you print a table
+out using "testfont.tex" so you can see what is where.
+
+The punctuation marks are based on those found in "Namarie". I am not
+thrilled over the look of the question mark, but did not have an
+assortment of examples for this character as I did for the others.
+
+The numerals purport to be genuine creations of J.R.R. Tolkien,
+unearthed by Christopher Tolkien in 1981. I worked from a photocopy
+of an article attributed to the British Tolkien Society and copyright
+by Christopher Tolkien (which copyright appears to have been
+violated by whoever made the photocopy). I presume that duplicating
+these numerals in digital form is governed by the same laws as duplicating
+the other letters from Lord of the Rings (which is also copyright);
+I hope this is all legal. To the best of my knowledge, this is the
+first digitized Tengwar font that incorporated these numerals. I do not
+especially care for the look of these numerals, but once again, there
+was only the single page of specimens to work with, and this page
+did not show numerals mixed with letters in the same calligraphic style.
+If the numerals do not look sufficiently different from letters, the
+practice of the Eldar was to accent each numeral with a dot above; for
+a long string of numerals, a continuous bar above the string could be
+used (experiment with \vrule or \hrule for this). Finally, numerals
+were written in a decimal base, but with the low-order digits FIRST.
+So the speed of light would be ``000681'' miles/second, if the Eldar had
+reckoned in miles.
+
+The S-hook, `halla' carrier, and Beleriandic "w-squiggle" (seen in
+Sauron Defeated) were added September 1994 to work better with
+Ivan Derzhanski's TengTeX macros.
+
+I have experimented only a little bit with the "meta" possibilities for
+this font, although I have made something of an attempt to parametrize
+most of the glyphs. Try `tengwarweird' for a different look. You are
+encouraged to experiment with the parameter settings and are
+*DEFINITELY* encouraged to send me any interesting settings (and changes
+that might be required to accomodate those settings).
+
+ Mike Urban
+ urban@netcom.com